Not "selling out"....just being eliminated from stock after Jan. 27th.

And what exactly is "being eliminated from stock?" I know that book publishers can pulp, burn or otherwise destroy legions of returned books, but I wouldn't have thought the CD units not sold would be so handled. Surely not?

Not "selling out"....just being eliminated from stock after Jan. 27th.

And what exactly is "being eliminated from stock?" I know that book publishers can pulp, burn or otherwise destroy legions of returned books, but I wouldn't have thought the CD units not sold would be so handled. Surely not?

Good question. I've purchased OOP CDs from resellers on Amazon.com and have got "cutouts" with notches in the case or holes punched through the barcode. My guess would be that this is the eventual fate of these CDs.

Not "selling out"....just being eliminated from stock after Jan. 27th.

And what exactly is "being eliminated from stock?" I know that book publishers can pulp, burn or otherwise destroy legions of returned books, but I wouldn't have thought the CD units not sold would be so handled. Surely not?

Storage/shelf space is finite. If CDs don't sell, they go "out of stock". I don't know what Intrada does with them, but they don't sell them any longer even if they don't "sell out".

Not "selling out"....just being eliminated from stock after Jan. 27th.

And what exactly is "being eliminated from stock?" I know that book publishers can pulp, burn or otherwise destroy legions of returned books, but I wouldn't have thought the CD units not sold would be so handled. Surely not?

I assume unsold copies are sold off in bulk. It used to be common to see new but discontinued CDs in used record stores - now you see them on Amazon Marketplace sellers.

I assume unsold copies are sold off in bulk. It used to be common to see new but discontinued CDs in used record stores - now you see them on Amazon Marketplace sellers.

Still not very clear. The titles appear on Amazon whatever the case, Doug. Is this 'elimination' something similar to what happened to all the remastered Bond titles Lukas helmed some way back. Those Bonds are, on the face of it, ridiculously underpriced on the mainstay websites. They're always there - it's not as if one of the titles has completely sold out. Diamonds Are Forever should have become a rarity by now IMO. Something doesn't add up to this old square. For one thing, delivery from Amazon or any of the vendors is very efficient, so there's no need to worry over some kind of misfire within any given sale. Confidence is high. The problem is there don't seem to be enough of US to take up the slack.

Edit: To Ron, captain_avis and Lokotus - your replies didn't show up between you making your posts and this last one of mine. I only saw Doug's post above so it may have been they were not showing on my computer due to the 'dropout' problem others have reported as of late.

Blimey! The only way out that makes any kind of sense is to contract for the upper limit, then produce hardcopy in controlled batches in the form of a pyramid. The highest quantity to kick things off, then diminish each new batch accordingly. I'm sure the labels have their methods to minimise loss, but, judging a title to as near a perfect finish as possible has to require - I dunno - 'focal length' for the job.